Health Management Information System Challenges

This assignment delves into the crucial role of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) in strengthening healthcare management. It examines the challenges associated with traditional data management systems and analyzes the benefits of HMIS implementation. Through an interview with an IT professional, the paper highlights real-world experiences, costs, time implications, and the effectiveness of web services integrated into HMIS for improved record keeping and service delivery.

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Introduction
Health Management Information System (HMIS) is an important tool for
strengthening of the health-care system. A data collection method is required for planning,
decision-making and management in the health-care organizations, which could be served by
Health Information Management System (Laudon & Laudon, 2016).
The aim of this assignment is to understand the complexities and challenges of the
Health Information Management System in a health organization.
Discussions
Health Management Information System is essential to make the heath system
stronger. It integrates all the important data in a health care, which could be helpful for
monitoring the overall performances of the healthcare (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017). This
system could be applicable to all types of healthcare; however, the IT professional is working
in a general healthcare, which has specific segmented department like, ENT, Gynecology,
Cardiology and various other specified departments. The role of the Information Technology
professional in this aspect is to manage, control and handle all the important data in the
healthcare system. The IT professional collect, analyze and protect all the digital medical
information that are very important to provide quality care (Istepanian, Laxminarayan &
Pattichis, 2014). The IT professional is termed as health information management
professional and they plan overall information system in the healthcare, develop the
necessary health policy; identify contemporary and future information that are needed. In
addition to that, they control and analyze the information that is necessary for legal,
administrative, ethical and professional requirements of record keeping in the health care
unit.

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A number of important data regarding the implementation of the Health Management
Information System has been gathered and collected from the interview. The interview has
also provided the problems with the existing system in the healthcare. The problems
associated with the existing system are related to record keeping in the healthcare. There was
no integrated system in the healthcare that could save and re-use the important information
and documents. Now this is become easy to apply information whenever it needs. Access to
the real-time information regarding patients and administration like, manual registration,
hand documentation are the challenges in the conventional system of the healthcare unit
(Galliers & Leidner, 2014). This has worked as a barriers in policymaking and the
understanding the requirements of the healthcare from the point of view of the hospitals,
clinics and state. All the information is integrated digitally that are important in knowing the
number of people using which services and their requirements, nature of the health problems
and types of preventive action.
There are no such major problems using the web based and computerized
HMIS. More than 95% of the data is correct and accurate and it is much safe in this system as
this is computer based or cloud based. Even health workers from all over the world has
acknowledged the effectiveness and usefulness of HMIS in data storage, service delivery and
generation of reports and work plans. The initial cost for operation and installation has
included 17, 622 US Dollars. Equivalent annual incremental cost of capital items is estimated
around 4213 US Dollars (Kongstvedt, 2012). This is time saving services. The overall time in
the healthcare service is diminished due to implementation of the Health Management
Information System. This saves time as health workers could keep records and generate
report in shorter timing, which is one of the major advantages of this system.
The web service is well fitted in the Health Management Information System. The
cloud based web service is most effective in protecting and controlling the important

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information for the healthcare unit. As this web or internet based system, provide huge
storage place all the detailed report could be stored. It has no chance of loss the data and huge
amount of back up is there in this system. The record keeping strategy has become easier ij
this way and it is user friendly too.
Conclusion
It can be concluded by stating that Health Management Information System (HMIS)
is important and necessary building blocks in the management system in a healthcare. It
enhances the management integrity in the healthcare units. There were challenges in
traditional data management system in healthcare unit. The patients, healthcare professionals
including nurses, doctors and managers were facing the challenges regarding record keeping
and management.
The interview with IT professional helps in getting real life experience in
implementing the HMIS in the healthcare unit. All the challenges and barriers what he has
faced has been discussed in details in this paper. His duty or role in this aspect has also been
discussed. The paper has provided with insights of the new system.

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References
Galliers, R. D., & Leidner, D. E. (Eds.). (2014). Strategic information management: challenges and
strategies in managing information systems. Routledge.
Istepanian, R., Laxminarayan, S., & Pattichis, C. S. (2014). M-health. John Wiley & Sons.
Kongstvedt, P. R. (2012). Essentials of managed health care. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P. (2016). Management information system. Pearson Education India.
Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2017). Health care information systems: a practical
approach for health care management. John Wiley & Sons.

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Appendix
Interview with Health care IT professional.
Questions
1. What are the problems with the existing system? What is the necessity to incorporate the
HMIS into the existing system in this health care organization?
2. What is your role in this aspect?
3. Briefly describe about the cost, time, and delivery of quality services associated with an
HMIS.
4: discuss how wed services could be fitted into HMIS.